Dax Shepard

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Dax Randall Shepard (born January 2, 1975) is an American actor.

Dax Shepard
Shepard at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City
Born	Dax Randall Shepard January 2, 1975 (age 35) Milford, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1998–present

Hailing from a small town outside of Detroit, Mich., DAXSHEPARDhoned his skills as an actor and comedian with the much-celebratedimprov troupe The Groundlings while earning an anthropology degree fromUCLA. Shortly thereafter, he found himself in the spotlight when helanded a role as himself in the inaugural season of MTV’swildlypopular celebrity-prank series “Punk’d.”As theshow’s original master of disguise, he created a barrage ofcharacters in an effort to disguise himself to the audience and theshow’s increasingly savvy celebrity targets.

Background

Shepard was born in Milford, Michigan, and attended Muir Junior High and Walled Lake Central High School, before enrolling in The Groundlings school. He later received a degree in anthropology at UCLA. He is currently also engaged to actress Kristen Bell

[edit]Career

Shepard was an actor on Punk'd with Ashton Kutcher. In 2006, Shepard appeared opposite Dane Cook and Jessica Simpson in the comedy Employee of the Month. During the same time, Shepard began appearing in more film roles, and starred his first main character role in Let's Go to Prison alongside Will Arnett. He also had a major role in Baby Mama. Shepard wrote the script for the Paramount venture Get 'em Wet, in which he again appeared with Arnett. He was also starred in the 2010 movie, When in Rome. He is now one of the main characters in the NBC show, Parenthood, playing Crosby Braverman.

Personal life

Shepard races motorcycles at Buttonwillow Raceway, including his Ducati Hypermotard 1100S and Suzuki GSX-R1000.

He has been dating Kristen Bell since 2007. As of January 2010, he and Bell are engaged.

Shepard donates much of his time to the Hollenbeck Youth Center, an after-school program that provides opportunity to at-risk inner-city youth. He has served as their official Master of Ceremonies, along with his friend Tom Arnold, for the Inner-City Games and Hollenbeck Youth Center's Miracle on 1st Street Toy Giveaway Program in East Los Angeles.

Filmography

Hairshirt (1998) as Vomiter at Party (as Dax Sheppard)

Punk'd (TV Series) (2003) as Ashton Kutcher's minion (field agent)

Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) as Camera Crew Member

Without a Paddle (2004) as Tom Marshall

Sledge: The Untold Story (2005) as SFX Coordinator

Zathura (2005) as older Walter

My Name is Earl (TV series) (2005)

Robot Chicken (2009) Blitzen / Pickles / Ironhide / Human Torch (2 episodes)

Employee of the Month (2006) as Vince Downey

Idiocracy (2006) as Frito Pendejo

Let's Go to Prison (2006) as John Lyshitski

King of the Hill (TV series) (2006)

The Comebacks (2007) as the hometown Sheriff

Knocked Up (2007) as Himself (uncredited)

Baby Mama (2008) as Carl

Smother (2008) as Noah Cooper

Confessions of an Action Star (2008) as Bucky

Boobies in Space (2008) as Joey the Plumber in Space

Old Dogs (2009) as Gary (uncredited)

Parenthood (TV series) (2010) as Crosby

When in Rome (2010) as Gale

(source:wikipedia)